This is probably the most chilling and depressing of all of Wall of Voodoo's kind of tongue in cheek, dark humored songs.
Since it is a narrative, there's not too much to interpret here. A man in his mid-life looks back on his work at the factory. A boring repetitive job that has sucked all of the joy out of his life over the past couple of decades. He no longer has any ambitions, but reminisces about a time when he did.
"My father told me I could grow up to be anything - I really wanted to be anything" is probably the most depressing lyric in the song, and the key to the whole moral of the story here.
This is probably the most chilling and depressing of all of Wall of Voodoo's kind of tongue in cheek, dark humored songs.
Since it is a narrative, there's not too much to interpret here. A man in his mid-life looks back on his work at the factory. A boring repetitive job that has sucked all of the joy out of his life over the past couple of decades. He no longer has any ambitions, but reminisces about a time when he did.
"My father told me I could grow up to be anything - I really wanted to be anything" is probably the most depressing lyric in the song, and the key to the whole moral of the story here.